iTunes 24bit

skrol
skrol Posts: 3,387
edited February 2011 in Music & Movies
iTunes may be offering 24 bit recordings.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/02/22/24.bit.music/index.html?hpt=Sbin
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  • PrazVT
    PrazVT Posts: 1,606
    edited February 2011
    That would be sweet.
    ALL BOXED UP for a while until I save up for a new place :(

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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,225
    edited February 2011
    Good article, thanks for the post. :cool:
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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,201
    edited February 2011
    Sacd and dvd audio failed. Hi res music doesn't appeal to the general market. But that doesn't mean they can't release the 24 bit version of what has been recorded.
    Digital music should replace the cd in all forms. From what I have learned , a heard drive can outperform any cd transport. You can store instead of hand changing your music.
    I believe anywhere you buy your music it should be a copy of the original. Then if you are going to replay that file on a lower res system , it just down grades it, not from the start.
    Why must we live in a world where down graded anything is except able?
    Dan
    My personal quest is to save to world of bad audio, one thread at a time.
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  • nguyendot
    nguyendot Posts: 3,594
    edited February 2011
    mantis wrote: »
    Sacd and dvd audio failed. Hi res music doesn't appeal to the general market. But that doesn't mean they can't release the 24 bit version of what has been recorded.
    Digital music should replace the cd in all forms. From what I have learned , a heard drive can outperform any cd transport. You can store instead of hand changing your music.
    I believe anywhere you buy your music it should be a copy of the original. Then if you are going to replay that file on a lower res system , it just down grades it, not from the start.
    Why must we live in a world where down graded anything is except able?

    But then you have to buy $1000 sata cables, and $2000 sata power wires to get best performance :)
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited February 2011
    http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116375

    http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116352
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • On3s&Z3r0s
    On3s&Z3r0s Posts: 1,013
    edited February 2011
    nguyendot wrote: »
    But then you have to buy $1000 sata cables, and $2000 sata power wires to get best performance :)

    Those are only necessary if you are using fans to cool your PC's internal components, as fans are notorious contributors of electrical and mechanical noise to the signal path. A far superior solution is to eliminate the fans by submerging your PC in Crisco, at least until MIT gets around to making SATA interconnects.

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  • PrazVT
    PrazVT Posts: 1,606
    edited February 2011
    lol. or you can go liquid cooling. If you're not overclocking, you can pretty much shut off all the fans (case, radiator). About the only thing that would need to run is the water pump. hell even overclocked, if I'm not encoding blu-ray -> x264, I pretty much shut down everything except the giant window fan.
    ALL BOXED UP for a while until I save up for a new place :(

    Home Theater:
    KEF Q900s / MIT Shotgun S3 / MIT CVT2 ICs | KEF Q600C | Polk FXi5 | BJC Wire | Signal / AQ ICs | Shunyata / Pangea PCs | Pioneer Elite SC 57 | Parasound NC2100 Pre | NAD M25 | Marantz SA8001 | Schiit Gungnir DAC | SB Touch

    2 Channel:
    Polk LSi9 (xo mods), Polk DSW MicroPro 2000 sub | NAD c375BEE | W4S DAC1 | SB Touch | Marantz SA-8001 | MIT AVt 2 | Kimber Hero / AQ / Signal ICs | Shunyata / Signal PCs
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  • On3s&Z3r0s
    On3s&Z3r0s Posts: 1,013
    edited February 2011
    PrazVT wrote: »
    lol. or you can go liquid cooling. If you're not overclocking, you can pretty much shut off all the fans (case, radiator). About the only thing that would need to run is the water pump. hell even overclocked, if I'm not encoding blu-ray -> x264, I pretty much shut down everything except the giant window fan.

    That's no good, the pump's still got a motor. Crisco FTW!!! :wink:
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  • Ace944gs
    Ace944gs Posts: 110
    edited February 2011
    Not sure if this is posted elsewhere, but all this talk about 24bit recordings on iTunes made me look into the latest on their N.C. data center...funny enough, they're rumored to go live sometime this spring.

    My hope? 24 bit download options for the good stuff/keeper music, and a subscription based model for the background stuff! (all at a reasonable cost, of course... otherwise I'm sticking with CDs/LPs).

    http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/02/23/apple_says_nc_data_center_will_support_itunes_and_mobileme_this_spring.html

    As much as I'm tired of Apple's greater-then-thou attitude on pretty much everything, I get excited about these things. We all benefited from them bullying the recording industry in the early part of the last decade...hope they can keep it up.
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  • PrazVT
    PrazVT Posts: 1,606
    edited February 2011
    That's no good, the pump's still got a motor. Crisco FTW!!!

    Upgrades would be messy though :)
    ALL BOXED UP for a while until I save up for a new place :(

    Home Theater:
    KEF Q900s / MIT Shotgun S3 / MIT CVT2 ICs | KEF Q600C | Polk FXi5 | BJC Wire | Signal / AQ ICs | Shunyata / Pangea PCs | Pioneer Elite SC 57 | Parasound NC2100 Pre | NAD M25 | Marantz SA8001 | Schiit Gungnir DAC | SB Touch

    2 Channel:
    Polk LSi9 (xo mods), Polk DSW MicroPro 2000 sub | NAD c375BEE | W4S DAC1 | SB Touch | Marantz SA-8001 | MIT AVt 2 | Kimber Hero / AQ / Signal ICs | Shunyata / Signal PCs
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  • On3s&Z3r0s
    On3s&Z3r0s Posts: 1,013
    edited February 2011
    PrazVT wrote: »
    Upgrades would be messy though :)

    But so nice to have your PC smell like french fries all the time! :tongue:

    Ok, enough LuLz... sorry for diverting the thread.
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